New Approach For The Treatment Of Malignant Brain Tumors
Thursday, October 1, 2009 - 09:21
in Health & Medicine
Initial chemotherapy alone after surgery is just as successful as initial radiation therapy for patients from whom a very malignant brain tumor (anaplastic glioma) was removed, a new study has found. With this treatment, the patients survive on average more than 30 months without a recurrence. Patients in primary therapy benefit to the same extent from chemotherapy alone as from radiation alone.